Right-wing acts, "Not pass" without repudiation

The demonstrations set by the PP and Catalan Civil Society (SCC) They are reactionary. The consistent fight for amnesty and self-determination requires forceful responses, both immediate and strategic.

Again in the center of the scene

The demands of former president Carles Puigdemont (JxCat) to invest in Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) and the massive Day of 11 of September, They placed the most heartfelt demands of the Catalan people at the center of the political scene: language defense, amnesty and self-determination.

Nervous breakdown over amnesty

For the right and the extreme right, these are unacceptable points, but what caused them tension was the mention of the possibility of passing an amnesty law. They do not care that it is announced as a partial pardon and that a bourgeois president is installed in the Moncloa, supporter of the anachronistic and weakened regime of '78.  

Aznar, from the museum of political horror

In this regard, the ultra-reactionary former president José María Aznar, proposed to carry out a “civic and institutional mobilization against amnesty and self-determination”. The spokesmen of your party, the PP, They came out to defend him and the current candidate for the investiture chosen by Felipe VI, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, adopted the idea.

Retrograde concentrations

As a result, The PP called for an event in Madrid, the weekend of 23-24 from September and SCC to another in Barcelona, he 8 October. Vox has declared that it will “to attend all the demonstrations against this attempt to subvert the constitutional order”, and who will decide whether to attend the Madrid event depending on whether it is a PP event or exceeds it.. He also confirmed that he will support SCC in the capital of Catalonia.

Transfer of the stage

The unionist right has upped the ante by moving the political dispute to the streets, seeking social complicity among the most backward sectors. They do it under the sacred mantle of "Unity of Spain", by a minority government of the PP and “against those who promoted a coup d'état”, in reference to the independence leaders of the "Process".

The meekness that serves no purpose

For Yolanda Díaz, acting vice president of the government and leader of Sumar, the PP acts to “destabilize the country”, in response to which it has made an institutional call to maintain the "serenity", in sync with the line of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos. Reformists criticize the most rancid in politics, along with their government disasters, lies and surrenders make way for them.

Defeat them in the streets

Al PP, Vox and its partners must be defeated in the streets. It is the action that the PSOE avoids, summer, We can, in common we can, United Left and others. For their part, ERC and JxCat only appeal to mobilizations to put pressure, more focused on negotiating than on breaking with the oppressors.

uncertain prognosis, alternative path

The investiture process goes through an increasingly dense and tangled mess, Therefore, it is risky to predict whether it will lead to a new president or new elections.. Yes, it is certain that there is another path to travel, with a bridge that unites immediate needs and actions, with the background.

Boycott

It is necessary to obstruct the events in Madrid by all means, Barcelona and anywhere where initiatives with the same reactionary characteristics arise. The acts “They will not pass” without repudiation.

Against acts

The presence of the right and the extreme right in the streets cannot go unnoticed: It is necessary that the weekend of 23/24-S and 8-O, the groups that call themselves progressive, left, union leaders and social movements call to mobilize and hold large counter-demonstrations. It would be more than appropriate for the CUP, the pro-independence left, anticapitalist, AND, CR, CRT, AT THE, SOL and others met at a meeting to make a unitary and independent Manifesto.

Mobilization and strike

With repression or with pacts, with sticks or with partial concessions, both the PP and the PSOE try to bury the claims for the Catalan Republic. It is a State strategy that exceeds the chapter of the investiture and will extend over time. A plan of struggle is urgently needed with massive demonstrations and with a leading role for the labor movement through the strike, like the one that was called in Catalonia on 3 of October 2017; joining the student movement and the Catalan people with the organization of pickets. At the state level, nor can the deterioration of the standard of living be ignored, of salaries, public health and education, hence the demand to UGT and CC. AND. so that they abandon their complicit passivity and call assemblies to prepare a general strike.

Amnesty and self-determination

The demand must be for a complete amnesty, both for the leaders and for the thousands of activists prosecuted for defending the 1-O Referendum and for other actions. The supposed “successive approximations”, no matter how positive the agreements with the regime are painted, lead to a dead end. The path towards the Catalan Republic will be cleared with the mobilization, self-organization and the emergence of new political and union leaders, democratic and consistent, able to overcome the defense expressions of the governments, of the regime and the capitalist system.

Create new alternatives

The unity of action to confront the extreme right is a good mechanism. As long as it does not imply dissolving into the orientation of the occasional companion with whom one only agrees on some tactical point but not on strategy.. It is necessary to create an independent political and programmatic pole to intervene in the class struggle, in political processes, for self-determination and socialism. This requires the right tools, as a far left front and a revolutionary party, socialist and internationalist rooted in the working class. Let's get to work to get them.